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Many of us have completed advanced training; four in five have a master’s degree, with hundreds of hours of field work as part of the requirement.

Sikich manages field work for the project and is considered an expert on lions in the region.

Anthropology requires a lot of field work and a lot of interviewing and I always felt awkward approaching total strangers.

“As an avid recreationist and a wildlife biologist that does field work, I often hear wildlife before I see them, so this is a really important point.”

“He was quite up himself… so he wasn't a particularly popular person, but he was reasonably good at his job,” says John Pomeroy, who organised research field work for Crocodylus Park.